[Rd] R 1.2 build

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Paul Gilbert <pgilbert@bank-banque-canada.ca> writes:

> I've been trying to build a bundle with the R-devel snapshot from
> yesterday. (Yes I know it is unstable and just tell me if I shouldn't be
> trying to do this yet.)

On the contrary, this kind of info is very useful.

> It is failing with the message
> tar : /dev/rmt/0 : Permission denied
> 
> It happens after "removing junk files" and just after the message
> "building dse_2000.9-1.tar.gz"
> 
> It looks to be coming from the line in the build script
>   system("tar ....
> but I don't read perl very well.
> 
> (Using Solaris.)

I think the problem is that older versions of tar wants un-hyphened
options i.e. 

tar chXf $exclude $startdir/$filename $pkgname

rather than
 
tar -c -h -X $exclude -f $startdir/$filename $pkgname


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